Category Archives: local artists

Jun
30
2008

Tampa Artist Joyce Lazzara Has A New Website

Joyce Lazzara, one of Tampa Bay Florida’s most beloved artists and giclee printmakers, has launched a new website. Her lovely and talented assistant Regine is busily filling the site with new paintings, prints and notecards.
Joyce specializes in hyper-real tropical paintings and prints which reflect the intensity of the tropical heat and colors of southwest Florida. [...]

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Jun
27
2008

Melia Has Space in St Pete

An opportunity– from Melia’s blog:
Visual artists, photographers, graphic designers looking for studio space to rent? Downtown St Petersburg!!!
1st Ave N @6th st near The Globe Coffeehouse
via Artsqueeze

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Jun
27
2008

New Paintings From Caleb

Painting, as usual, in public here at the Interior Motives gallery in St Petersburg, in real time and without a net, Caleb completes two more paintings set in Crescent Lake Park, St Pete. The overwhelming feeling presented is one of heat and mystery, said one onlooker, which sounds about right. These two paintings are 36×36 [...]

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Jun
24
2008

Workshop News From Plein Air Painter Robert Simone

Back By Popular Demand!!
Full Immersion – Summertime Workshop II
With St Petersburg Artist Robert J. Simone
July 10th & 11th @ Indian Rocks Beach Art Center
9:00 am – 4:00 pm with lunch break at Noon.
Fee: $60
Class Limit-12 students-please call our office at 727-596-4331 to register
Here are comments from last month’s participants:
“Robert was great-good teacher-funny-great painter and lots [...]

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Jun
17
2008

Tampa Bay Artist Joyce Lazzara Has A New Blog

Joyce Lazzara, one of Tampa Bay’s best-known artists, has a new blog which includes galleries of her available prints and original paints. Joyce has long been a painter of Florida’s distinctive scenes and landscapes, and her reputation is international in scope. You can check Joyce Lazzara’s new site here.
Joyce’s Art is available in St Petersburg [...]

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Jun
11
2008

Interior Motives Artist Caleb Completes Commission In Public

St Petersburg Florida artist Caleb has finished, for a Tampa Collector, another view of St Pete’s Crescent lake, this time looking west across the lake just after sunset. This is a 48 inch square canvas, and is reminiscent of his work from the nineties, when he favored large and frequently equilateral pieces. He is [...]

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Jun
03
2008

Caleb Caught Doing Actual Work

Forensic photographic evidence experts may quibble, but here is a shot that purports to catch Caleb in the act of actual painting while hanging out at Interior Motives Gallery in St Petersburg, Fl. Caleb claims to be there working from “oh, uh, like 3:30 or so till, uhm, whenever…” Monday through Friday. We didn’t take [...]

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May
25
2008

Craft Emergency Show June 1st Update

Vendor space for the Craft Emergency Show in St Petersburg, Florida is long since gone, so this show should be a crowded one.
Show hours are 9 AM – 2 PM. Artists and Fine Handcrafted Items will be for sale in Red Cross Park, located on the corner of 4th Street North and 9th Avenue North [...]

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May
22
2008

Local Sculptor Leslie Fry Publishes “Wild Life” Documentary Book

Sculptor Leslie Fry, who summers on her modest estate in Vermont and winters here in St Petersburg, has been getting great reviews on her new book “Wild Life“.

Leslie writes:
Hi Caleb,
Thank you always for your wonderful design of the map/announcement card for my park sculpture project last year. I also thanked you in the Acknowledgments of [...]

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